Category: Amazon

Amazon suspends wine sales effort

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Amazon.com is apparently shelving its planned effort to sell wine online.

A little more than a year after word of the effort trickled out, a senior Amazon account manager told wineries in an e-mail that the company has decided “not to resume shipping.”
“As you know, we were excited to work with you to build the AmazonWine [...]

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Who Has the Most Web Servers?

There was a milestone buried deep within the earnings tables in this week’s first quarter results from Rackspace: the San Antonio company has become one of a select number of companies that have more than 50,000 servers. Rackspace reports that as of March 30 the company’s data centers house 50,038 servers, up from 47,518 at [...]

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Amazon introduces Virtual Private Cloud service

On the third anniversary of its Elastic Compute Cloud launch, Amazon Web Services late Tuesday announced a new service, the Virtual Private Cloud.
Targeted at customers with existing IT investments, the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service provides a way for companies to create a logically separated set of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances and a secure [...]

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